User:Patricia Ann Kelly

Published writer, poet, photographer born in Brooklyn, New York from a family of nine. Her parents migrated from New Orleans, Louisiana. Ms. Kelly is an honors graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo, attended the University of Ghana in Legon, West Africa. She also completed field work during her junior year in the Somali Republic. Pat graduated from Columbia University, in New York, earning her masters in Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education. Ms. Kelly has published in ESSENCE, CRAWDADDY, EAGLE & SWAN, UNIQUE NY, and poetry in BROWN UNIVERSITY'S BLACKS ON PAPER, won numerous awards(Dean's List, Black Scholar Honor Woman of the Year, Phi Delta Kappa Columbia). She currently works as a Media Specialist for the New York City Board of Education. Her hobby, photography has won awards with the INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY SOCIETY, and Pat has self-published three books of her work, "New Orleans Roots," The Lost Boyz Photo Gallery", and "Year Abroad in Africa." Ms. Kelly lives in New York with her family.